In this podcast, VP and research director Trent Henry and VP and service director Eric Maiwald continue the conversation arising from Trent's blog post Operationalizing Security by passing along day-to-day security responsibilities to operations groups. Henry and Maiwald discuss tasks that can be offloaded to allow security teams to focus more of strategic matters. They have developed a sample operationalization litmus test for work orders.
In this podcast, VP and research director Chris Howard moderates a discussion between executive strategists Ken Anderson and Jack Santos on Ken's upcoming report "IT Metrics: You Manage What You Measure." IT departments rely on numerous operational metrics to accurately set goals, meet department expectations and improve overall productivity. However, inside the organization two measurements can be found, IT focus on efficiency as primary metric (uptime, downtime, on time with budget) while the business side measures based on effective dollars and metrics based on an rating of future value. There can be a break down between the organizational measurements: do we need to focus on efficiency metrics or effectiveness metric and while managing employees to be efficient/effective the organizations are trying to use less with less are they missing out on efficiency opportunities?
In this podcast VP and service director Chris Howard interviews, VP and service director Craig Roth, and VP and service director Gerry Gebel about using SharePoint to solve strategic goals of your IT organization. Roth talks about using SharePoint as an enterprise problem solver from the prospective of collaboration and what are SharePoint's real capabilities out of the box versus what you can do with a third party add-on or individual building. Gebel covers the limitations an organization can encounter with identity and access management systems and how can SharePoint fit into your enterprise identity management plan.
In this podcast, Chris Howard VP and service director for Burton Group's Executive Advisory Program interviews Richard Jones VP and service director and Drue Reeve VP and research director for Burton Group's Data Center Strategies service as a follow-up to Richard Jone's report Windows Server 2008: Upgrade or Not to Upgrade and podcast. The analyst discuss the compatibility Windows Server 2008 will have with other operating systems and how the features will integrate with currnet organizational functions. Howard also questions Jones and Reeves when enterprise organizations should prepare to migrate or if there is no need for the transition. The report is currently being offer on Burton Group's free resource page for free download.
In this podcast, Richard Jones VP and service director for Burton Group's Data Center Strategies service talks about the release of Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 and if your organization needs to upgrade. Jones covers the key areas users would observe in deciding whether to upgrade to Windows Server 2008 and if and when upgrading is right for your enterprise organization. Also covered by Jones are the upgraded system features that Microsoft has made available for the new release.
In this podcast, Burton Group VP and research director Anne Thomas Manes expounds on her findings within her recent service-oriented architecture (SOA) research project. The research aims to discover how well organizations are doing in their SOA initiatives, what kind of value they are realizing, and what factors are impeding their progress. The final results of this project will be presented at Burton Group Catalyst Conference in June.
In this podcast, senior consultant in the network telecom strategies service, Chuck Bessant talks about operational support systems (OSS) and the importance they play in the role of operations to network infrastructures. OSS offers users a clear understanding of how the network is currently functioning and allows us to find problems occurring and how to quickly fix them.
In this podcast, Chris Howard, service director and executive strategist, interviews Mike Disabato, service director of Burton Group's Network and Telecom Strategies service concerning the state of unified communications. With the increased attention around unified communications mobility, Disabato keys in on how unified communications will the affect the executives and IT professionals and why they should be paying attention to the unified communications wave. Disabato briefly covers the Network and Telecom Strategies tracks at Catalyst Conference North America this June.
With the annual Burton Group Catalyst Conference North America beginning to take shape, service director Chris Howard and CEO and research chair Jamie Lewis discuss the six areas transforming the future of enterprise IT: Building the Dynamic Data Center, Identity Management Are We There Yet?, Security Vital Signs, Everything Wireless, Succeeding with SOA, and The New Ways of Work. Lewis also speaks to the need of developing conversation around the complex issues facing enterprise IT organizations and using Catalyst as a forum to discuss the emerging technologies.
Burton Group, is offering a series of workshops April 1 and 2 in Boston through Burton Group Institute. Each full-day workshop will provide in-depth, technical strategies for IT organizations implementing SOA or SharePoint. The SharePoint workshops will be presented by Craig Roth, VP and service director and Karen Hobert, senior analyst. Roth and Hobert will present the following workshops: Understanding Microsoft SharePoint v3/2007 in Context. This workshop provides a strategic, enterprise-level assessment of SharePoint’s capabilities and implications. It is designed for organizations seeking to determine if, when, and to what extent SharePoint should play a role in their collaboration and content infrastructure and Microsoft SharePoint Infrastructure Planning and Governance, the 2007 release of SharePoint offers an important opportunity for implementers of earlier SharePoint releases to re-evaluate their often tactical, disorganized, and organic SharePoint environments, and to approach collaboration and content management design, governance, and deployment from a strategic, enterprise point of view. In this podcast, Roth gives an overview of Burton Group Institute and what atttendees can expect to take away.
In January 2008, Burton Group published a report evaluating products in the Federation technology market. Federation is an important tool for deploying cross-domain sign-on and access solutions. With more than a dozen products on the market today, information technology (IT) architects have no shortage of options. Because large organizations require a tiered model for federation, few will be able to settle on a single federation server or hosted provider for all their federation needs. Most organizations will deploy a mix of general-purpose, application-specific, and open source technologies to round out federated identity.
In this Burton Group Tech Watch podcast, Gerry Gebel moderates a discussion on the adoption and state of the federation market with providers: Ping Identity, Covisint and Sun.
Participants:
Burton Group – Gerry Gebel, VP and Service Director
Ping Identity - Patrick Harding, Chief Technology Officer
Covisint - David Miller, Chief Security Officer
Sun Microsystems – Pat Patterson, Federation Architect
About Burton Group Tech Watch Podcasts
Burton Group Tech Watch Podcasts help technologists make smart IT purchase decisions. Moderated by a Burton Group analyst, Tech Watch Podcasts bring together vendors from a market sector to discuss technical differentiators, emerging market trends, adoption hurdles, and successful use cases.
Burton Group Tech Watch podcasts are impartial. Featured guests do not pay to participate, nor are guests required to be clients of Burton Group.
Businesses increasing dependency on IT systems is placing great pressure on IT organizations and their data centers. Data centers are overflowing with servers, networking, and storage. Compounding space and power concerns is a potential economic downturn that threatens to slash IT budgets. In this Data Center Strategies 2008 Vantage Point podcast, Research Director, Drue Reeves, will discuss these issues, outline some of the IT market trends addressing these issues, as well as discuss the data cneter topics at Catalyst 2008.
Part 4 is the final recording of the Content Globalization series which Craig Roth covers. Content globalization is often handled by marketing or product development people, but there is a lot that IT can and should do to lay the groundwork for future localization efforts. Part 4 describes five things that IT can do about content globalization. Each podcast is paired with a blog companion to provide links, diagrams, and summary bullets. The blog companion entry that can be found at ccsblog.burtongroup.com and clicking on the "globalization category."
In part 3, Craig Roth dives into what big vendors are doing concerning content globalization and where they really care. And what does vendor support mean to the software market and how will buyers be impacted. Eachpodcast is paired with a blog companion to provide links, diagrams, and summary bullets. The blog companion entry that can be found at ccsblog.burtongroup.com and clicking on the "globalization category."
In part 2 Craig Roth discusses background information on globalization to assist people coming up to speed on globalization or looking for rationale for our analysis. Part 2 gives a quick overview of topics such as globalization terms, where to find linguistic trend data for a particular region, some important standards for content globalization, and a brief overview of code internationalization. Each podcast is paired with a blog companion to provide links, diagrams, and summary bullets. The blog companion entries can be found at ccsblog.burtongroup.com and clicking on the “globalization category”.
In this four-part podcast series, Collaboration and Content Strategies Analyst and Service Director Craig Roth reviews his research into the impact globalization is making into enterprise content management.
The four podcasts are:
Part 1: Repeatable content globalization: Ignore it at your peril
Part 2: Content Globalization 101 in twenty minutes - published 2/12/08
Part 3: Content globalization: Do the big vendors care? - published 2/18/08
Part 4: What IT can and should do - published 2/19/08
Each podcast is paired with a blog companion to provide links, diagrams, and summary bullets. The blog companion entries can be found at ccsblog.burtongroup.com and clicking on the “globalization category”.
Consultants Doug Moench and Cathy Hood interview Doug Simmons, director of technical architecture, introducing unified access. This term is used to define physical and logical access controls and their convergence. Simmons addresses issues such as benefits of converged “badges” for facilities access as well as network and application authentication and access control (“unified access”), challenges with implementation, and possible enterprise system upgrades that may be necessary to implement this long awaited technology. In some ways, the federal government is breaking down the barriers of entry thanks to Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD12), and enterprises in all industries can soon start to reap the benefits of this integration.
VP and executive strategist Chris Howard, moderates a discussion with Jack Santos, Ken Anderson, Gerry Gebel, Trent Henry, and Richard Jones on the impact of an economic down-turn on IT initiatives. The roundtable will focus on what enterprises have learned with strategic planning during the last economic down-turn in the scope of data center management, security initiatives, identity management projects, and concerns of the CIO. What is the utilizing of current resources and what enterprises should think about in preparation for the future. Executive strategist Jack Santos’s blog post “The Economy” was the foundation for this roundtable.
A Catalyst North America encore: Beyond the traditional vendor-based platforms available to enterprises, open source solutions that can deliver IP-PBX and presence-based, instant messaging functionality are garnering increased attention. While open source solutions are absent from much of the marketing and media excitement surrounding real-time communications, solutions such as Digium's Asterisk and Jabber's XCP platforms provide intriguing alternatives to traditional vendor-based solutions, and offer increased implementation flexibility. In this presentation, Senior Analyst Mark Cortner and Principal Analyst Mike Gotta provide an assessment of open source solutions and the implications to enterprise IT organizations. Questions this Burton Group POV will address include: What is the status of open source for real-time communications solutions? What are some of the considerations and obstacles to leveraging open source? What applications are well-suited for open source implementations in conjunction with traditional vendor-based infrastructure or applications platforms?
A revised set of securirty and network templates have been created with focusing on security perimeters and zoning, data center networking, and application flows. In this podcast, Principal analyst Dan Blum will explain what’s new relative to the previous network reference architectural templates, and why these changes were made. To listen to the telebriefing Blum referenced in the podcast visit Burton Group's Network and Telecom content and to follow more on perimeterization and what Security and Risk Management Strategies (SRMS) is covering visit the SRMS blog.
Chris Howard, service director of the Executive Advisory Program speaks with executive strategists Jack Santos and Ken Anderson about the evolving position of the CIO, their biggest challenges and what they can do to meet those challenges head-on. Howard also discusses how the collective leadership experience of these executives will provide information and tools to help technologists effectively manage and lead the IT organization. For additional information about what the Executive Advisory Program (EAP) is covering visit the EAP blog.
With all the conversation surrounding virtualization, VP and Service Director Richard Jones and Research Director Drue Reeves discuss why this is a conversation that you need to be a part of. Jones and Reeves take a look at why virtualization is a hot industry topic and the push to consolidate. They also talk about who is going in the right direction with virtualization and potential problems are holding back enterprises for adoption. Get a deeper look at why everyone is talking about virtualization and find out what virtualization can do for you.
Data center operators are increasingly facing space, power supply, and cooling system capacity challenges as IT and data storage growth rates continue to accelerate. To meet customer needs, and to contribute to environmental quality in northern California, Pacific Gas and Electric Company has developed a comprehensive portfolio of energy efficiency products and services to help IT managers reduce energy use and costs. PG&E offers technical support and financial incentives for a broad array of technologies, including IT and data storage virtualization/consolidation projects, installation of MAID systems, cooling system and airflow improvements, and premium-efficiency equipment.
The IT industry is talking about the wrong capital “C.” The focus shouldn’t be Compliance; it should be Control. We’ve been missing capital “R,” too. Rather than trying to manage Regulation, security teams should be taking care of Relationships—between themselves and audit/legal groups; between employees and critical policies; and between business processes and audit evidence. Research Director Trent Henry explains how this changed view will help to avoid the common pitfall of compliance: a single-minded focus on technology and help increase efficiency and reusability of compliance programs. In part 2 of the control series Henry will speak to utilizing emerging tools for automating orchestration of controls—both technical and non-technical— which results in effective and auditable controls.
The IT industry is talking about the wrong capital “C.” The focus shouldn’t be Compliance; it should be Control. We’ve been missing capital “R,” too. Rather than trying to manage Regulation, security teams should be taking care of Relationships—between themselves and audit/legal groups; between employees and critical policies; and between business processes and audit evidence. Research Director Trent Henry explains how this changed view will help to avoid the common pitfall of compliance: a single-minded focus on technology and help increase efficiency and reusability of compliance programs. In part 2 of the control series Henry will speak to utilizing emerging tools for automating orchestration of controls—both technical and non-technical— which results in effective and auditable controls.
The OASIS IDtrust Member Section will conduct a complimentary, vendor-neutral workshop on 22 October, 2007 at Burton Group Catalyst Conference Europe in Barcelona, Spain.
For this podcast, Gerry Gebel, VP and service director for Burton Group’s Identity and Privacy Strategies discusses current identity management challenges and the need for groups to work towards a common model for identity management standards with the following workshop participants: Patrick Gannon, President and CEO, Organization for the Advancement of Structured Standards, or OASIS Eve Maler, XML Standards Architect, Sun Microsystems Andre Durand, Chairman and CEO of Ping Identity
The group also highlights the innovative use cases to be presented that will help attendees solve their identity management challenges.
Attendance to this workshop does not include a conference pass and requires separate registration. Click here for more information <http://events.oasis-open.org/home/idtrust/2007>.
In this podcast, Andrew Kutz, Burton Group analyst takes a unique look beyond data center efficiency to focus on achieving energy utilization. There is a hard cap on energy efficiency at 100%, but even when running at maximum efficiency, utilization has room to increase. With data center hardware technologies quickly increasing there is a need for software design to catch up to utilize these powerful machines. Kutz covers several ways to improve upon data center efficiency with proper utilization.
The Data Center Strategies team is on location at the VMWorld Conference and will give a daily recap of announcements and key messages presented at the conference. In this podcast, research director Drue Reeves covers day one of the VMWorld industry announcements. Drue takes a specific look at the release of VMWare's ESX 3i announcement.
This podcast is part 2 of 2 of the encore re-broadcasting of the Burton Group Telebriefing, Is iPhone Ready for the Enterprise? In this Burton Group panel discussion Jamie Lewis, CEO and Research Chair of Burton Group, will lead a discussion of the iPhone and its place in the Enterprise. The panel will include leading analysts from the Burton Group's various services including: Dave Passmore, Diana Kelley, Bob Blakley, and Richard Monson-Haefel. Part 2 includes the panel discussion and debate of enterprise topics concerning the iPhone followed by a brief question and answer session. Duration of part 2 is 1 hour.
This podcast is part 1 of 2 of an encore re-broadcasting of the Burton Group Telebriefing, Is iPhone Ready for the Enterprise? The iPhone has been called a major advancement in mobile technology for the mass consumer market, but does the iPhone have a place in the Enterprise? In this Burton Group panel discussion Jamie Lewis, CEO and Research Chair of Burton Group, will lead a discussion of the iPhone and its place in the Enterprise. The panel will include leading analysts from the Burton Group's various services including: Dave Passmore, Diana Kelley, Bob Blakley, and Richard Monson-Haefel. Part 1 will include Jamie Lewis's presentation on the current status of the iPhone and introducing the topics for discussion.
Part 2 will include the panel discussion and brief question and answer session.
In this podcast, Collaboration and Content Strategies Service Director Craig Roth describes what web governance is, its drivers, and common governance models. Lack of effective governance is a common cause of failure for enterprise portals, intranets, and collaboration environments so it is important to get on the right path with web governance.
In this podcast, research director Phil Schacter moderates a discussion with senior analyst Eric Maiwald and principle consultant Gene Fredriksen concerning the deployment of network access control (NAC). The discussion spans through topics such as, what are reasons for deploying NAC, business justifications for NAC, and are companies ready for NAC? The panel evaluates what NAC is and where is the future of NAC going regarding enterprise deployment and community of standards.
In this podcast, senior analyst Trent Henry speaks on the IT impact of E-Discovery. E-Discovery invokes tremendous IT requirements to preserve, find, and produce critical electronic evidence. IT teams serve as strategic helpers for enterprise litigation, and the choices they make for the creation, storage, archival, and destruction of information have substantial impacts on legal and regulatory evidence handling.
In this podcast, analyst Karen Hobert shares her presentation from a seminar on E-Discovery with regards to enterprise message retention technology and preserving e-mail content for e-discovery and compliance. Hobert's presentation covers the benefit of retaining mailbox content, what organizations need to do to effectively manage and retain mailbox content, message management and retention tools in the enterprise.
Burton Group analysts Kevin Kampman and Lori Rowland conduct a question and answer podcast about role management and enterprise applications control management for fine-grained access in enterprise resource planning. Some of the questions being addressed will be the capabilities of these applications, compliance issues, and challenges for customers.
In this podcast, Principal Analyst Mike Gotta interviews Carol Jones, IBM Fellow, on the topic of social software and its implications to the future of work within the enterprise. Social software was one of the topics covered extensively during the Burton Group Catalyst North America 2007 conference. How social systems present technology and organizational challenges is the focus of the discussion.
In this podcast, Principal Analyst Mike Gotta interviews Ajay Gandhi, Director of Emerging Products at BEA Systems. Ajay leads the go-to-market strategy and marketing efforts for BEA’s social software products. Many organizations are exploring the use of social software as a means to improve community-building, information sharing, and collaboration. Historically, BEA has not been broadly recognized as a player in that regard but has recently entered the market with a platform approach towards social computing. During this interview, Ajay addresses some of the challenges faced by BEA as it competes not only with IBM and Microsoft but also with many emerging vendors in this field.
In this podcast, Principal Analyst Mike Gotta interviews Jordan Frank, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Traction Software. The topic is “blogging”, covering market trends, customer use cases and business applications for corporate blogs. Burton Group research indicates that organizations are still somewhat hesitant regarding the role and business value of blogs behind the firewall. In this discussion, different approaches that place “blogging” in a business context are discussed.
Depletion of the IPv4 address space is anticipated in the next 3 to 4 years, and this will have a direct and tangible impact on all organizations making use of the Internet. While not a crisis, there is the need for deliberate planning and action by enterprises of all types in order to maintain full Internet connectivity. John Curran of ARIN provides an overview of the current IPv4 utilization situation and discuss the practical steps necessary to minimize the impact of this transition to your organization. This podcast is a rebroadcast of John Curran's Catalyst session and moderated by Burton Group's Dave Passmore and concluded with a question and answer session.
In this podcast, Principal Analyst Mike Gotta offers an overview of the session that will be delivered on unified communications during the upcoming Catalyst Conference 2007 later this month. Unified communications requires a broad framework that includes not only technical architecture to address communication and collaboration technologies but governance frameworks and program management constructs as well. The unified communications track will include six sessions covering such topics. Two of those session will be from customer organizations that are currently involved in efforts to deploy solutions within their respective enterprises.
In this podcast, Principal Analyst Mike Gotta provides an overview of a workshop being offered during the Catalyst 2007 Conference. Organizations involved with knowledge management strategies, or considering undertaking such initiatives, are looking closely at social software (e.g., blogs, wikis, tagging, social networking) to see if it can help where past technologies failed. But is that the right question – will organizations looking at social software products and related “Enterprise 2.0” media hype be making the same techno-centric mistakes of the past? This podcast will provide a brief description on the workshop and how it examines issues related to knowledge management, social software and Enterprise 2.0.
In this podcast, vice president and service director Gerry Gebel, and Jim Heaton with General Motors discuss the need for interoperability and harmonization of different identity standards and protocols. On June 26 at Burton Group Catalyst Conference, GM will present a case study to help the industry define drivers to support interoperability. This free workshop is hosted by Concordia, a cross-industry initiative formed by members of the identity community to drive harmonization and interoperability among identity initiatives and protocols. Click here for more information and to register.
Seven vendors demonstrate interoperability of XACML 2.0, the authorization standard optimized for federated environments. In the demo, transactions for a stock portfolio are coordinated and approved by a customer and account manager. Each vendor’s implementation exchanges policies with others, and policy enforcement points request authorization decisions from one another. In this podcast Hal Lockhart of BEA, Rich Levinson of Oracle and moderator by Gerry Gebel from Burton Group will set the stage for the XACML interoperability demo happening at Burton Group’s Catalyst Conference, June 25-29, in San Francisco.
Burton Group is spearheading a user-centric identity management interoperability demonstration to prove identity management systems can interoperate to serve consumers and enterprise application needs. Based on an up-and-coming school of thought in the identity management community, user-centric identity management focuses on user empowerment in sharing personal information and self-determination in establishing relationships with relying parties. The primary approaches behind the user-centric model are identifier-based (such as OpenID) and information card (such as CardSpace) systems, plus other supporting standards and infrastructure components. In this podcast, Mike Jones of Microsoft, Paul Trevithick of Higgins Project, Johannes Ernst of NetMesh and moderator Gerry Gebel from Burton Group offer a preview to the user-centric interoperability demo at Burton Group’s Catalyst Conference, June 25-29.
No rational person will tell enterprises to throw away their firewalls. But there is a growing architectural disagreement about where security controls should reside, and the role of the network in providing security. Some advocate dumb networks, with security managed through encrypted tunnel overlays that enable VPN gateway access to consolidated data centers. Others insist “intelligent” or “self-defending” networks are needed, requiring enterprises to implement admission and content control mechanisms directly into network switches, routers and other security devices, thus creating multiple perimeters and zones. In this podcast Dave Passmore and Eric Maiwald will preview their Catalyst Conference session debate on the pros and cons of secure overlays across dumb networks vs. perimeters enforced by smart networks.
On May 24, Jon Brodkin at Network World wrote an excellent article hitting the mark on why corporations should adopt green computing. Continuing the dialogue, Burton Group Data Center Strategies (DCS) research director Drue Reeves, and analyst Andrew Kutz discuss business and practical tips enterprise IT organizations can use to increase data center efficiency as well as dramatically reduce operational costs. More insight from Kutz can also be found on the DCS blog post, Is Green the New Blue?
Interoperability across heterogeneous environments is a critical success factor for the development and deployment of web services for enterprises of all sizes. Key members IBM, Microsoft, Novell, SAP and Sun from the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) will showcase the value of interoperability for “Secure web services,” at Burton Group Catalyst Conference, Thursday, June 28.
In this podcast, Burton Group research director Anne Thomas Manes and president and chairman of the Board of WS-I, Michael Bechauf, discuss interoperability issues in general and the new WS-I profile for secure web services, and they give a preview of what attendees can expect from the demo at Catalyst.
In this podcast, Dan Blum offers advice on proactive approaches to help IT organizations cope with increasingly challenging IT security environments through a proactive risk management focus that engages the business; architects for de-perimeterization; improves OS and end point security; and promotes an information-centric architecture perspective and sustainable compliance solutions. This podcast highlights the key perspectives and discussions to come from Catalyst Conference 2007 in June.
Today Burton Group announces the launch of its newest service, Data Center Strategies (DCS). This new service will help IT professionals leverage existing and emerging technologies to solve critical data center issues including server sprawl, power and cooling costs, storage, disaster recovery, and data center management. Introducing this new service is Richard Jones the VP and service director of DCS. Get a copy of the report "Let's Get Virtual: A Look at Today's Server Virtualization Architectures" as a part of Burton Group's complimentary content.
The Black Death was a symptom of a change already underway - a change in patterns of interaction between peoples. The change swept across Europe, and, as the Black Death burned out in Europe, the change swept across the Atlantic. A similar change – a change in the pattern of interactions between people – has been occurring in modern times. The current wave of computer viruses, malware, and identity theft are the exact analogy of the Black Death. The implications of this change for information system security and for personal privacy will be profound. This podcast produced by principal analyst Bob Blakely is an introduction to his presentation, “The End of Secrecy,” to be given at Burton Group’s Catalyst Conference 2007.
